Changing pictures on advertising



No. 623,242- Patented Apr. I8, I899.

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MEANS DR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AND EXNIBITING ANIMATED DR CHANGING PICTURES DN ADVERTISING APPLlANDES, 8w.

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No. 623,242. Patented Apr. I8, I899. W. FRIESE-GBEENE.

MEANS 0R APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AND EXIIIBITING ANIMATED 0B CHANGING PICTURES [IN ADVERTISING APPLIANCES, 8w.

1 (Application filed July 7, 1898.) ENG Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

NITED STATES PATENT IOFFICE.

\VlLLIAM FRIESE-GREENE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING AND EXHIBITING ANIMATED OR CHANGING PICTURES 0N ADVERTISING APPLIANCES, &c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,242, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed July 7,1898. -685,379. (No model.)

To all? whom. it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM FRIESE- GREENE, of London, England, have invented certain new and useful Means or Apparatus for Producing and Exhibiting Animated or Changing Pictures on Advertising and Like Appliances Carried on the Person, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to producing and exhibiting animated or changing pictures on appliances carried on the person; and its chief object is to adapt kinetoscopic apparatus to the purpose of advertising upon such appliances. The appliances may, for example, take the form of a translucent hat or the like carried on the head or of a translucent screen carried by a frame which is supported upon and above the shoulders in asimilar manner to advertising-boards.

The invention chiefly consists in the combination of a transparent or translucent screen, means for'attaching it to the person, a film or sheet bearing a series of successive pictures, preferably such as are adapted to produce what are generally called animated pictures, means whereby the said film or sheet is caused to travel opposite the screen, so that the pictures are thrown upon or exhibited through it, and a lighting or illuminating device for lighting up the pictures and the screen.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation, with the hat-body in section, of an apparatus constructed according to my invention in the form of a hat or device adapted to be worn on the head, the screen being of cylindrical form. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a man wearing the apparatus. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of an apparatus constructed according to my invention and adapted to be supported upon and above the shoulders, the screen in this case being of rectangular form. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of the apparatus shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents a man with the apparatus shown in Figs. et and 5 attached to him.

celluloidand constitutes the screen upon which the pictures are thrown or through which they can be seen. The crown Z) and brim 0 may be made of the same material or of any other suitable material, opaque or not. cl represents a ribbon orbandaround the body a just above the brim; but the employment of this ribbon isoptional. e is a cylindrical sheet or filni of translucent material bearing a series of pictures arranged around it in the same horizontal plane. f' is a cylinder of opaque -or translucent material concentric with the cylindrical sheet 6 and situated between it and the hat-body a. The cylinder f is formed with a series of slots or openings g. In the center of the hat-body a is a lightingup device of any suitable kind, but preferably an electric glow-lamp h, as shown, connected up by wirest' 'i with a small battery 76, which, as seen in Fig. 3, may be conveniently carried in the coat-pocket. The cylindrical sheet 6 and the slotted cylinder f rotate in opposite directions, and as they do so the pictures are successively exhibited through the slots g and through the transparent hat-body a. As the slots 9 are all around the cylinder I f, the onlookers, no matter on what side of the hat they are, can see the pictures. These pictures may constitute an advertisement, and other permanent advertisements may appear upon the hat-body a above the upper line of the cylinder f.

The cylindrical sheet 6, the cylinder f, and the'means whereby these devices are caused to rotate constitute together a kinetoscopic apparatus. The rotary motions of the cylindrical sheet 6 and cylinder f can be given in any suitable mannersuch, for instance, as by clockwork. The preferred means for this purpose are, however, shown in the drawings and are as follows: In the lower part of the hat-body a is a frame Z, secured to the hatbody a at intervals by small brackets and screws at Z and having at its center a bearing for the lower end of a vertical rod m, to

these two disks and in contact with them both is a friction-wheel t. This wheel is carried by a horizontal rod u, working in bearings 12 22, supported by the frame I. The rod 1!, extends through a sleeve 20 to the outside of the hat-body a and carries a pulley m. A drivingcord y is carried from this pulley to another pulley m, Fig. 3, having its bearing in a bar 2 at the mans side. The bar 5 extends up through an aperture in the hat-brim c and is fixed to the sleeve 10. The cord y also passes through an aperture in the hat-brim. The pulley 00 has a handle 5' to enable the man to turn it. It will be readily understood that as the pulley 00 is rotated the rotary motion is transmitted to the pulley 0:, rod u, and friction-wheel tand that this wheel rotates the disks 9' and 8, together with the cylindrical sheet e and cylinderf, in opposite directions, respectively. In some cases I dispense with the cylinderfand make openings, such as g, in the'fixed hat-body,whieh in this case should be opaque. The pictures on the sheet 6 will then as this sheet rotates be seenthrough the openings. The hat-body, in short, takes the place of the cylinder f, but is stationary.

Referring now to Figs. 4, 5, and 6, a is the screen, made of translucent materialcelluloid, for example. It is carried at the front part of a framing A, at the back part of which is a box B, containing a kinetoscopic or kinematographic apparatus. This apparatus is not shown. It may be of any ordinary construction such as is used for exhibiting socalled animated pictures. The box B will be illuminated internallybyan electric glowlamp or otherwise. When an electric glowlamp is employed for the purpose, the necessary battery may be placed within the box B or in any other suitable position. The usual lens within the box B will be so disposed as to throw the ever-changing image upon the screen a, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. at. The framing A is carried by supports 0 C, so constructed as to rest upon the shoulders of a man, as seen in Fig. 6, and to be secured to his body. On the end of the firstmotion shaft 20 of the kinetoscopic apparatus in the box B (which apparatus comprises the endless film of pictures) is mounted a pulley m, from which a cord 3 is carried to another pulley m, having its bearings in one of the supports 0. The pulley as has a handle 2' to enable the man to turn it. As this pulley is turned the rotary motion is transmitted to the pulley ac and first-motion shaft it. 0011- sequently the kinetoscopic apparatus within the box B is operated and the pictures are projected upon a screen a.

IVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a cylindrical translucent picture-bearing sheet, means for imparting rotation thereto on a vertical axis, a lighting device inside said cylindrical sheet, a cylinder concentric with said sheet, having equidistant openings around same,and means for imparting rotation to said cylinder in a reverse direction to the rotation of said sheet, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A hat having a body of translucent material in combination with a cylindrical .picture-bearing sheet Within said body, a cylinder concentric with said cylindrical picturebearing sheet situated between same and said hat-body and having equidistant openings around same, a lighting device in said hatbody, and means for simultaneously imparting rotation in reverse directions respectively to said picture-bearing sheet and said cylinder substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A hat having a body of translucent material in combination with a cylindrical picture-bearing sheet within said body, a cylinder concentric with said cylindrical picturebearing sheet situated between same and said hat-body and having equidistant openings around same, a lighting device in said hatbody and means operated by the person wearing said hat-body simultaneously imparting rotation in reverse directions respectively to said picture-bearing sheet and said cylinder, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

at. The combination of the translucent hatbody a, cylindrical picture-bearing sheet 6, cylinder f, having openings g, rod it, pulleys a: and m, cord y, handle 2 on pulley 0c and connections between the rod u and the sheet WILLIAM FRIESEGREENE.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN C. MEWBURN, ROBERT M. SPEARPOINT.

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